Happy New Year to freedivers everywhere! The week after Christmas is a time when most people pledge to improve themselves in an area in which they have been a tad lax. Let’s face it, most of us could shine a bit more in some way, right? It seems many resolutions involve living healthier. This so easily applies […]

Dr. Neal Pollock, Research Director at Divers Alert Network, created and maintains a worldwide database on freediver breath-hold incident statistics. It is important to understand the true number of fatal and near-fatal incidents will never be completely known, as Neal and his team rely upon individuals to provide information on such events. Unfortunately, the database has […]

April 19, 2008 was the 20th birthday of my oldest son Robert. That day will also always be the anniversary of the day I nearly lost my two oldest boys in a freedive accident. On the ascent from a 90’ dive, Robert attempted to rescue his brother David, who had blacked out, but Robert also […]

Freediving is a discipline that tends to encourage participants to maintain a healthy diet, exercise, and abstain from substances that may impair safe underwater performance. However, freedivers can sometimes underestimate how drinking even a few beers the night before diving, and certainly during diving, can impair performance and compromise the mental game. So, just how does […]

Every year, the Blue Wild Ocean Expo in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida delivers the best of the best in the sport of freediving. And that includes freedive safety advocates, experts, speakers, demonstrations, and tips. Our sport can be glamorous, thrilling, heart-pumping, and sexy, but it’s none of these unless you’re alive and kicking. And that’s where […]

Recently, several safety advocates made me aware of an activity that could become a new trend in underwater breath-hold training. Atlanta Hawks guard Kyle Korver recently shared with Outside magazine his interest in extreme fitness challenges once a year. This year he and four of his hard-core friends relayed underwater for 5K with an 85.2 […]

Freediving Instructors International (F.I.I.) will be hosting a charity breath- hold competition at the 2015 Blue Wild Ocean Adventure and Marine Art Expo on Saturday, February 21 at noon at the Nautical Ventures Pool. The competition will be hosted by 13x World Record Freediver Martin Stepanek with special guest World Record Spearfisherman Cameron Kirkconnell. The […]

Without a doubt, the Blue Wild Ocean Adventure and Marine Art Expo is the biggest and best freediving and spearfishing consumer show in North America, which is why you should be there Saturday & Sunday Feb. 21 & 22 from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.! It seems impossible, but every year Sheri Daye, the show’s […]

Every New Year’s Eve I consider new goals to set and accomplish, a bucket list for a year’s worth of achievable things. Some are measurable and some are not. I’ve never actually achieved all the goals I’ve set out to do in a year, but I get several done and call it good. Some lists […]

Today is Giving Tuesday. If you believe, like we do, that every freediver deserves to have access to life-saving education about freediver blackout, please rise to the challenge and donate to DiveWise today. Every year we lose far too many freedivers to shallow water blackout. Those who engage in the sport of freediving/spearfishing need access […]

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Dive Wise is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing freediver accidents through safety education and awareness. Since its inception in 2008, Dive Wise has become a unifying force in the freediving and spearfishing communities generating awareness of shallow water blackout and the steps to prevent serious injury.